Last modified: 2011-12-05 16:46:40 UTC
Going to a non-existent page http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/01/01/wikimedia-uk-celebrates-public-domain-day2/ shows the sidebar moved below, a clear sign of a missing </div>. W3C Validator reports 19 Errors, 1 warning(s) A couple of </A> which should be </a>, usage of <nobr> instead of CSS, a dangling empty <li>, a </ul> not opened and 8 Opening and ending tag mismatches. However, asking for the main page http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://blog.wikimedia.org/ also gives 68 Errors! Most from using <col> where it shouldn't, and others... stupid unconformant XHTML: "<p><!--EndFragment--></tbody>" As a final note, Wikimedia blog is including javascript from http://stats.wordpress.com That wouldn't be acceptable in a project, per the Privacy policy. Its inclusion there seems questionable.
Assigning to me so I remember to look into this.
I would really like to close this one as INVALID as the URL doesn't give "lots" of errors, only 2, probably the result of bad html production or typos. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.wikimedia.org%2F2010%2F01%2F01%2Fwikimedia-uk-celebrates-public-domain-day%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 Please fix those two errors, if anything, and then close this bug.
Seems there were errors in the entry http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/05/03/welcome-sumana-harihareswara-volunteer-development-coordinator/ Reassigning RobLamphier.
I've fixed all the validation errors caused by bugs in the theme itself (e.g. <small> elements around <p>, etc.). The Wikimedia blog should pass validation as soon as the production copy is updated. While I was at it, I also fixed the one in Rob's post (probably due to a copy/paste from a MediaWiki page, where MediaWiki's <div>s conflicted with the <p>s WordPress had automatically added) but specific posts are likely to break validation often in similar cases.
